Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson (6 January 1960-) was a British television personality and food writer. The daughter of Conservative Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, she worked her way up from being a book reviewer and restaurant critic to being a freelance journalist during the 1980s. In 1998, her first cookery book, How to Eat, became a best-seller, and she became a major television personality and cookbook author during the 2000s.

Despite being the daughter of a prominent Conservative and member of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, Nigella Lawson voted for the Labour Party during the 1980s. She criticized Margaret Thatcher in print, and she never talked about politics much with her father due to their conflicting views.